Documentary filmmaker Marc Shaffer joined Steve Jaxon, Harry Duke, and Isi Vega on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on the December 9 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO for a discussion about his film Exposing Muybridge, screening soon at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol. Ambition, betrayal, murder,…
Filmmaker Kathlyn Horan joined The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO for a discussion about her film The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile. Trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave. Decades after Tanya slipped from the…
Documentary filmmaker Lori Miller joined Steve Jaxon, Harry Duke, and Ky Boyd on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO for a discussion about her film Living Wine, now showing at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol. The film follows the journeys of natural winemakers in Northern California…
Documentary filmmaker Katherine Parsons joined Steve Jaxon, Harry Duke, and Ky Boyd on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO for a discussion about her film The Fire Cats: Save Something Small, having its West Coast premiere on Sunday, August 14 at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol.…
Bay Area filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine joined us on the Monday, August 1 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO for a discussion about their documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song. The film is currently screening at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
It’s been almost eight years since 13-year-old Andy Lopez was gunned down on a neighborhood sidewalk in Santa Rosa, CA by Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus. Gelhaus, a 24-year veteran of the Sheriff’s office at the time (as well as a firearms instructor and Iraq war veteran,) apparently mistook the Airsoft gun Lopez was…
Sonoma County-based documentarian Ron Rogers made two recent appeararances on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon to discuss his film 3 Seconds in October: The Shooting of Andy Lopez. He appeared on the July 13, 2021 show before the film’s broadcast on two Bay Area Public Television stations and then on the July 19, 2021…
Netflix’s Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal is an odd film. It’s part documentary, part docu-drama, and all absolutely infuriating. Director Chris Smith uses interviews and dramatic recreations to tell the story of the great College Admissions Scandal of 2019 in which elite members of the business, law, and entertainment communities (including residents of…
With the entire country under shelter-in-place for the past month, an edgy, stir-crazy nation has been desperate for new shows that could help take the edge off of the possibility of mass societal extinction. So, it is not unusual that a show such as Tiger King, a seven part Netflix reality show/documentary would capture a…
I’ve been covering the San Francisco International Film Festival for over ten years now, so long that it’s changed its name. Now it’s known as the SFFILM Festival and it’s running now through April 23 at a variety of venues in the Bay Area. My day began with a “check-in” at the Festival Lounge. This…
North Bay Stage and Screen 